दीवान

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (divân), from Middle Persian d(p)ywʾn' (dēwān, “archive, collected writings”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d̪iː.ʋɑːn/

Noun

दीवान • (dīvān) m (Urdu spelling دیوان‎)

royal court, tribunal
minister of state, divan
divan (collection of poems)

Declension

Declension of दीवान
	Singular	Plural
Direct	दीवान (dīvān)	दीवान (dīvān)
Oblique	दीवान (dīvān)	दीवानों (dīvānõ)
Vocative	दीवान (dīvān)	दीवानो (dīvāno)

Derived terms

दीवानख़ाना (dīvānxānā)
दीवानगिरी (dīvāngirī)
दीवानगी (dīvāngī)

Descendants

→ English: dewan
→ Telugu: దివాను (divānu), దివాన్‌ (divān‌)

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दीवान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 500

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